Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-10-16
MASON VALLEY.
"A FINE PLACE To RAISE
GOOD STOCK.
some of the Men who are
Beginning Right.

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Beginning Right.
Mason Valley is little nook in
Nevada. about 35 miles long and OF
variable width. 1t has fairly good
water facilities from the Walker
river, bat the river does not iun
enough water to FURNISH irrigation
for the entire Valley as the water
is now handled. During several
months of the year the Walker
river runs bank full to overf1owing,
and enough water goes to waste to
irrigate twice as much land as is
now under cultivation.
WATER STORAGE.
The solution of this problem is a
system of water storage, and l am
Informed that there are canyons
and valleys about here where every
drop of this waste water could
be impounded and used to great
advantage if there was precon-
certed action on the part OF the
leading men of the Valley. Good
water in inexhaustible quantities
can be found at depth of 10 feet.
and with windmills a great deai of
irrigation could be accomplished.
The sinking of artesian wells is also
being agitated, and with these ia
cilities Mason Valley could soon
double its population and resources.
FINE HORSES.
The farmers of the Valley have
started right on one proposition,
and that is on live stock. Most of
the stockmen dealing either in
horses or cattle have started in
with thoroughbreds /" from the
jump"
This policy is beginning to tell,
and one meets magnificent speci-
mems OF horses and cattle at every
turn. The Norman horses have
made their mark here already.
J. Nichol, shrewd old Scotch
farmer, was the pioneer of the Nor
man stock. He brought "Blon-
deau," an imported Norman stall
lion, from the Toano ranch, and
paid 50 900 for him. His neigh
bors thought he was going it pretty
steep, but he was soon making q
good thing off his grades, and these
animals are in large demand. One
of these grades, "Louis Napoleon,
owned by s. B. Fretwell, is five
years old, II hands high, and
weighs 100 pounds.
N. Brisson owns .sNiger," two
year-old, which weighs ,l50.
j. O. Birmingham has a Norman
grade years old that weighs l $50,
also" Goodenough, ""Nettie Smart"
and Duncan" along with "Col-
Her." French coach colt, all mag
nifcent specimens of the breed.
Adam Herbolt exhibits "Henry
Ward Beecher," a superb stallion
from Norman and Messenger stock.
w. H. Sprogg owns "Prince,"
"Norfolk" and Norman, and sew
eral French coach brood mares are
exhibited, which excite the admira-
ton of every lover of horse flesh.
Any of these animals would draw
an admiring crowd i'll any State of
the Union, and goes to show what
the splendid feeding facilities and
mild Winters OF the Valley can do
for stock.
The last accession to the thor
oughbreds of the Valley and the
crack stallion of the lot is "Glen-
coe," a Cleveland Bay, imported by
Harris & Co., and purchased by J.
Nichols at the State Fair for 81, 900.
It is not necessary to describe the
Cleveland Bay to anyone who has
seen one, and one can convey no
good idea of those beautiful punches
of horse flesh to those who have not
seen them. They are destined to
be the coming carriage horse of
America, and will always command
fancy prices.
The rage for good horses has be-
come so pronounced in Mason Val
ley that there Is talk of organizing
a Vigilants Committee and giving